US produced 656 million short tonnes of coal in first 10 months

13 November 2017

As per the recently released data by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), the US coal production for the first 10 months of 2017 is estimated to have been 656 million short tons (MMst), 59 MMst (10%) higher than production for the same period in 2016. Annual production is expected to be about 790 MMst in both 2017 and 2018.

Furthermore, the coal exports for the first seven months of 2017 totalled 51 MMst, which was 62% higher than in the same period of 2016. EIA expects growth in coal exports to slow, with exports for all of 2017 forecast at 75 MMst, 15 MMst (24%) higher than the 2016 level.

Onto the weekly data, the US produced approximately 15 mmst of coal for the week ending 4^th November, as per EIA’s latest report. This production estimate is 3.9% higher than last week’s estimate and 6.7% lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2016.

Looking at the break-up, east of the Mississippi River produced totalled an estimated 5.5 mmst (up 3.63% week over week) and west of the Mississippi River produced totalled an estimated 9 mmst (up 3.33% week over week), according to weekly figures released by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), on November 9, 2017.

Furthermore, the US’ year-to-date (as of 4^th November, 2017) coal production totalled an estimated 665 mmst, 9.5% higher than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2016.